This cavern has seen better days. It was probably once a fairly well-appointed room, complete with carpets, a laboratory, a small altar, and abed, but some recent terrific explosion has scattered the furnishings of the room into piles of twisted rubble along the edges of the cave.

The Coffin

You rush around the corner and see a cave that glitters and glows, the volcanic rock here has formed millions of tiny black and red crystals that catch the light and reflect it back a millionfold. The one thing that doesn't glow is a large slab of dull black stone in the center of the room.

Two dead bodies lie in the middle of the room face first, hundreds of dead worms laying around their heads.

As you approach the slab of stone the 7 wands you have begin to vibrate.

"Yes there was a voice in my head that was urging me to go to the west and save them. It said they were children and that more undead would keep coming unless we saved them. I was more concerned with you all then a random voice that was not able to really answer any questions."Malcolm shurgs his shoulders, "I would like to go follow up on it now though, they said there was a coffin and we could save them."

To Nemoris's question, "There does not seem to be much left that we have not explored. I'd say we heal up and clear out the remaining rooms. I am also intrigued by this 'voice'. If something is creating undead, we should deal with it quickly."

"We still have the demon to consider as well, it might makes sense to rest here and move on to attack the demon. Dalamus, I am sorry I don't have any way to assist with your vision, I can't imagine what you are going through."

"'Attack the demon'? Why? Unless it guards one of the wands, we should best avoid it." Nowzai frowns at Dalamus, but shakes his head. "We'll have to return to Cauldron to heal Dalamus's vision... perhaps Jenya can help him. That will take some time. Let us finish our business here, recover the remaining wands, and be done with this place."

"Well I am not saying we have to attack the demon, but we do have to leave the cavern by moving right by it's home, we should at least be prepared to defend ourselves and I don't think we are in any condition to defend ourselves right now"

"I am willing to go, but I also don't see the downside to resting here for now and moving out in the morning. The demon could move up onto the sand at any point to attack. We can't guaranty that it won't come attack us as we move to the winch. I vote to rest tonight and move out after we have healed up a bit."

"As for the Black Claws, that demon killed most of his people yesterday, I am not sure he has enough people left to do much good or if he would even be willing to risk them" Malcolm shrugs again "We could ask them I suppose, where did we lock them up again? I have some questions for the captain about my sister anyway"

"We are close to recovering the remaining wands. Let's drain the lake and take the sixth wand, and then retrieve the last wand from the Gnoll's lair. I would prefer to just finish this now without spending the night here."

"Well I can't speak for the whole group on the hiring of evil creatures, and honestly, neither can you, you can have an opinion but the day will never come when you are going to tell me what I am and what I am not allowed to do, I suggest you keep that in mind."

"We already have the one from the lake, Nemoris's bag contraption was successful is recovering it, they last one is in this stone box"

"And the day will never come where I willingly aid the forces of evil. As a a soldier of Iomedae, I have devoted my life to eradicating evil from the world. You either choose to fight for Good, or I will leave this party. I suggest you keep that in mind."

"What a waste." Nowzai sighs and pinches his nose. "There's a wide chasm between 'aiding evil' and 'hiring mercenaries'. I'm sure the forces of the Inheritor have hired such men in the past to fuel the Crusade. Don't be so naive as to think they were all scrupulous."

"Irregardless, Epik and I are in agreement. Let us heal what we can, gather the wands, and get out of here."

Trying to mind Speak to the voice in the coffin. Do you know what is on the surface of the coffin? do you know what these creature are guarding the coffin are? Who put you in the coffin? Do you have a wand?

"We are close to recovering the remaining wands. Let's drain the lake and take the sixth wand, and then retrieve the last wand from the Gnoll's lair. I would prefer to just finish this now without spending the night here."

I was able to recover the sixth wand already.

I also have three (or four if Dalamus didn't use one) potions of cure moderate wounds. I think it's best to save the wand for combat and life saving, rather than healing up when there are other options. If no one else feels that way, I'm alright to spend the charges, but it seems like a waste.

Highly doubt it will help, but I'll detect lycanthropy around the coffin as well

"I can stabilize anyone by mere touch, I just need to be close to them to do so. Do not forget to look for traps on that coffin! I can try my best without my eyes, but I will need the eyes of another to asnwer the questions that I will need."

"I feel so helpless and alone, I want more than anything to be able to see again, but I am not in a position to say what is our best course of action is"

Tike, is it -4 for a disable device check without vision? Do I also have a 50% chance to miss if I do potentially succeed?

"Thanks Nowzai. Since I have been trapped in this darkness, I have heard languages that intrigue me, and you seem to be able to understand them. Would you mind, teaching some of these to me, once we have left this awful place? I am fascinated with different languages."

From the PRD:"Contact poisons are contracted the moment someone touches the poison with his bare skin. Such poisons can be used as injury poisons. Contact poisons usually have an onset time of 1 minute and a frequency of 1 minute."

"Does anyone have a glove or Nowzai do you have a magical way to open this? That is a contact poison that will make anyone who touches it quite sick. If we have any way to avoid touching it with bare skin we can avoid it."

Nowzai blinks at the sight of so many coins. "Uh..." he makes a rare verbal pause before shaking his head. "Confirm we have the wand from the water, already?"

I completely missed if/when we retrieved that.

Yeah, it wasn't too difficult to fish it out of the pool. I think that we've got them all now, correct?

Magma Iron Clan wrote:

Do we rest here or try and get across cablecar in our bang up condition and hope the lake monster does not come out of the water?

I vote for resting up, I'd rather conserve our resources, and I'll take watch as well. If we want to make a break for it that's fine too, but need to be sure we don't get pulled into any combat with Epik, Magma, and Dalamus all so injured